I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

　　“See what I can do?” he said with pride. “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work. ”

　　When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.

　　These are times when nothing is important but the bottom line, when you can do things any old way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption (消费) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.

　　13. Which of the following is true about the old cobbler?

　　A. He was equipped with the best repairing tools.

　　B. He was the only cobbler in the Marais.

　　C. He was proud of his skills.

　　D. He was a native Parisian.

　　14. The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend. ” (paragraph 7) implies that _______.

　　A. nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him

　　B. it was difficult to communicate with this man

　　C. the man was very strange

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